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Even Mozart was not about to write a symphony that plumbed great emotional depths in 1765; both the composer and the form itself were practically in their infancy, and the galant spirit of the times did not call for such a thing. And with Mozart's earliest works there is always some question as to what extent, if any, his father Leopold (who copied the music) helped him with the finer points of structure and harmony...
...researchers cited as an example a fossil from Kenya, called KNM-ER 1470, which displays a transition stage between the australopithecines to Homo habilis, the earliest human species...
...tradition of tool-and diemaking is as old as the industrial age. Many of the earliest practitioners were blacksmiths who turned their forging talents to toolmaking. In the 18th century, craftsmen gathered in the manufacturing hubs of England, France, Germany and Sweden to fashion tools that would enable machines to produce items like clocks and locks. The trade flourished most dramatically in America. In the early 1800s, Eli Whitney helped to pioneer mass production, using standardized, interchangeable parts at his Connecticut musket factory. By the early 1900s, the toolmaker's skills enabled machines to engrave the Lord...
DIED. Chester Gorman, 43, archaeologist and teacher of anthropology whose excavations in northern Thailand unearthed evidence of the world's earliest agricultural and Bronze Age society, predating similar developments in the Tigris-Euphrates Valley by several centuries and casting doubt on the theory that the Middle East was a "cradle of civilization"; of cancer; in Sacramento...
DIED. Carleton Coon, 76, wide-ranging anthropologist who traced the development of humanity from its earliest stages to the first agricultural communities and whose many books include The Story of Man (1954) and The Seven Caves (1957); of cancer; in Gloucester, Mass...